On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:17:08AM +0100, Cotty wrote: > On 16/6/08, Cotty, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >Guys, guys. How much was the *ist D when it first came out?
$1695. That's what I paid for mine. It still works just fine, and until very recently was getting about as much use as the K10D. > The D60 I bought brand new in about 2002 IIRC was nearly 2,000 GBP!! > > How much was your first computer? First? Around $2400 for a 386/25 with 2MB of memory and a 40MB hard drive. I paid extra to get a .21 dot pitch monitor capable of 800x600. A few years later I paid around $4000 for a Gateway 486 DX2/66V system; 16MB memory, twin 340MB drives, 1024x768 15" monitor, extra I/O ports, LaserJet 4M printer (300dpi, 4MB memory), ScanJet 300dpi flatbed scanner. Neither of those systems are still around, of course. I got about five years of use out of each of them (overlapped; my wife took over the 386 when I got the new system). Since then I've bought at least three newer systems (a Pentium2/400, a Pentium3/800, and a Pentium4-HT/2.4GHz), each of which cost somewhere in the region of $1600 - $1300. But the last is still doing fine, after more than five years of use - I guess computers are now a mature technology, and don't need to be replaced very often. When we do eventually buy a new system it will probably be a notebook. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
